So you think you’re having a busy Christmas season? It could be worse. You could be one of the members of Cantus, the nine-man Minneapolis-based vocal ensemble. By the end of this Wednesday evening, the group will have delivered nine performances in seven days. Six of them were presentations of their theatrical collaboration with Theater Latte Da, “All Is Calm.” But the tougher ticket to secure is to one of the annual “Christmas with Cantus” concerts.

– Rob Hubbard, Pioneer Press

Soul Asylum at First AvenueIt felt like the early ’90s at First Avenue again, as a packed crowd awaited the highly anticipated first show by Soul Asylum at the venue since last December.

The power balladeers of my childhood, hard rock queens of my mother’s adolescence, Heart weren’t just role models for generations of young American women – they helped define for me and likely for many others the role of sexual politics in our culture.